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Jesus described hell (both Hades and Geenna) as a place of "torment," of "agony" in the fire, where "the fire never goes out," and where "their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. Jehovah's Witnesses deny that a human being has an immortal soul at all. Jews believe that there is no hell as Hindus as well. When
a person dies, some believe, he (i.e., soul) goes to the grave. Those
who are righteous will rise at the resurrection; the evil not will not
return but be annihilated. Convenient, but certainly not what Jesus
taught.
In Luke 16, Jesus teaches about this place, and explains some things that are quite amazing. Paradise was known as Abraham’s Bosom.
The Xasma separated both: Geenna from Abraham’s Bosom.
Geenna was the word that Jesus used for “Hell or infernum”, a place for punishment.
Also in Geenna was located the “TARTAROS”, where the angels that disobeyed were thrown into. (For more details read the study about HELL placed in the Jehovah witnesses chapter of our book). So, it is right that Jesus went to the place of the dead and preached to the ones that were there (both in paradise and Geenna) due the fact that only the Xasma made the separation, but the ones in Geenna could not go to paradise or vice versa as the story in Luke recalls. Hell was not meant for the children of God. That is why Jesus took the captives (war slaves, prisoners of war) in his train and gave gifts to men. Ephesians 4:8-9.
This prisoners were the just that died before Christ and were located in Abraham’s bosom. He took them and placed them in heaven, in paradise. “... I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” Jesus is saying: You are Peter and upon many that confess the same confession you have done I will build my church, and the gates of the place of the dead will not prevail against my church cause my church was not meant for hell.
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